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To make remote work tolerable, most telecommuters have a permanent cable modem or Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connection to the Internet. Although a permanent connection is a great convenience, it also makes your small office/home office (SOHO) more vulnerable to Internet-based probing and potential attacks. When you have a permanent connection, your Internet system is always listening for and responding to incoming connections—legitimate and otherwise. If your permanent connection has a static TCP/IP address, your Internet system is a known and registered entity on the Internet. A static TCP/IP address is similar to having a listed phone number. As a known entity, your system becomes a target for intrusion in the same way your listed number is fair game for telemarketers. If you routinely work at home, your home system is an extension of your employer's network. Your system probably contains sensitive information that you need to safeguard—for your sake and for your employer's sake.
Securing a SOHO involves a combination of two approaches: preventing unwanted access and detecting and preventing attempts at unwanted access. You can use several techniques to reduce Windows 2000's inherent vulnerabilities. You can set stringent controls for account lockout, disable services that announce your system's presence on the Internet, and disable services that have a track record of successful exploitation. You can enable security auditing to monitor logon and logoff, account management, policy management, privilege use, and system events. (For more information about hardening Win2K, see "Related Articles.")
These native Win2K techniques reduce the vulnerability of your Internet-connected machine, but they deter and monitor intrusion attempts only at the Win2K service level. Below each native service is a second layer of vulnerability in the form of TCP and UDP ports—the primary target of innumerable Internet-based Trojan horses and of attackers' attempts to probe for security holes. Although you can implement port and address filtering in Win2K as part of an IP Security (IPSec) implementation, not many SOHO systems are sophisticated enough to support IPSec connections. A personal firewall is the only software you can install to tightly monitor and control activity to and from your Internet system. When you implement a firewall, you can control incoming and outgoing traffic by port number, permit or deny connections based on source and destination address, and deter unwanted access in realtime.
I suggest two simple exposure tests to identify your SOHO's current vulnerabilities. After you run the tests, read on to learn how and where Win2K is vulnerable to accidental or purposeful intrusion—through NetBIOS, native services, and ports—and how to eliminate these open doors. Although what follows doesn't guarantee that your Internet-connected system won't experience problems, these Win2K techniques will significantly reduce your exposure and minimize the risk of attack. In Part 2 of this series, I'll cover how to select and install a personal firewall to address the remaining vulnerabilities.
Evaluating Your SOHO Exposure
Let's start by evaluating your SOHO's security vulnerabilities. If you're not convinced you have a problem, this test might be a sobering experience. Find a Web site that probes a system for common vulnerabilities. One such site is the Gibson Research Corporation Web site (http://grc.com), at which you can evaluate Windows-specific NetBIOS (i.e., NetBIOS over TCP/IP—NetBT) exposure and port-level exposure.
Test your NetBIOS exposure. At Gibson Research's site, click the Shields UP! link and scroll down the Shields UP! page until you see the Test My Shields! and Probe My Ports! buttons. Click Test My Shields!, and wait until the test finishes. If your system is like most systems, you'll see a display similar to Figure 1, which shows that NetBIOS port 139 is open and accessible and that the test can retrieve your username, your computer name, and your local share name information from this port. Because of its insecure nature, NetBIOS is the most common target for intruders. Save the results of this test so that you can compare them with the report you get when you run the test again after you implement the Win2K settings I recommend in the section "Eliminating NetBIOS Exposure."
Test your port exposure. Next, run the Probe My Ports! test. This tool is a port scanner that asks each Win2K sevice whether it's listening to and responding to incoming connections. The Gibson Research site explains that a port can be open, closed, or stealth, depending on how you configure and protect your system. An open port means that the associated service accepts incoming connections, which presents an opportunity for access. A closed port means that the service is available but doesn't accept incoming connections. A stealth port is an invisible port that gives no indication that the service is loaded and running. Figure 2 shows the results of the port test on an unprotected system that's wide open to NetBIOS and Telnet access. If you follow the instructions I provide in the section "Reducing Win2K Service Exposure" and then run this test again, you'll see how easy it is to remove these ports as targets.
Eliminating NetBIOS Exposure
Each time you install a network adapter, Win2K automatically installs and binds two NetBIOS components to each network card: Client for Microsoft Networks and File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks. These components provide backward-compatibility for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 9x systems that use Microsoft's proprietary and nonsecure NetBIOS (i.e., WINS) name registration and name resolution. Under the hood, Win2K and NT implement NetBIOS by using TCP/IP as a transport, an implementation the documentation refers to as NetBT. However, you don't need these functions on your Internet connection, and here's why.
Client for Microsoft Networks sends out NetBIOS name-resolution broadcast requests to locate computers and share names on your LAN (i.e., the names that appear in the My Network Places browse list). These unsolicited broadcasts announce your system and its internal resources and draw unnecessary attention to your Internet connection. Because NetBIOS name resolution is proprietary to Microsoft, few Internet-connected systems require this function. You can stop a system from broadcasting NetBIOS name-resolution requests on the Internet by unbinding the Client for Microsoft Networks on the network adapter connected to the Internet.
File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks is the counterpart to Client for Microsoft Networks. This component publishes NetBIOS names for local shares and, more important, manages incoming connections to local shares. Regardless of whether your machine has shares, you certainly don't want to publish their NetBIOS names on the Internet. Likewise, you probably don't want unknown Internet systems connecting to your private shares. You can stop a system from publishing NetBIOS names and you can disable incoming connections to NetBIOS resources by unbinding File and Printer Sharing on the network adapter connected to the Internet.
Unbinding both clients effectively closes several NetBIOS ports (ports 137,138, and 139*139 is the most well known) that are a standard target for intruders. To disable these components and eliminate NetBT traffic, open Network and Dial-up Connections (click Start, Programs, Accessories, Communications, Network and Dial-up Connections). Choose Advanced Settings from the Advanced menu to bring up the dialog box you see in Figure 3. Click the network adapter for your Internet connection (e.g., the WAN adapter in Figure 3), and clear the check boxes of both components. The changes apply immediately, without a reboot.
In a pure Win2K environment, DNS replaces proprietary NetBIOS name resolution, and Win2K systems don't need these components to successfully browse a network and connect to shares. When you disable these components, you stop announcing your Internet presence with NetBIOS broadcasts, disable incoming NetBIOS connections, and, as a side benefit, also eliminate a great deal of unnecessary network traffic. If your SOHO consists of Win2K systems and you're running Win2K DNS, you can safely disable these components on all your systems to eliminate NetBIOS vulnerabilities.
Reducing Win2K Service Exposure
Win2K installs many services that support local and network communication. You can view all the services Win2K loads and starts automatically by running the Administrative Tools Services applet. Because running services listen for and respond to incoming requests, typically on a specific port, they're a common target of attacks.
For example, when you install any Win2K platform, the OS by default installs and starts the Telnet service. Telnet listens to incoming requests and responds with a command prompt to each incoming connection. When Telnet responds to an incoming request, it verifies that your system supports remote command-line activity. Intruders that detect this service on your system know the service is listening to and accepting connections with a valid username and password. If you forget to rename the Administrator and Guest accounts and permit blank passwords (the system default), you give a potential intruder an easy way to log on and access your system. When you disable Telnet, you disable the listening port and guarantee that the service won't respond to incoming connection requests.
The Indexing, IIS, FTP Publishing, and Remote Registry services present similar opportunities for unsolicited remote connections. If your system doesn't host a Web site, you can safely disable the IIS and the FTP Publishing services, and if you're not publishing thousands of documents, you can disable the Indexing service, too. Randy Franklin Smith's "Dangerous Services" series of articles (which "Related Articles" references) explains the type of exposure each service presents. You might end up disabling many services to tighten up the security on your system.
Disabling a Win2K service requires two steps. First, you stop the service if it's running, then you set the startup type to Manual or to Disabled. Start the Administrative Tools Services applet to display all the services Win2K installs. Each service and its status appear in the right pane, as Figure 4 shows. To disable a service, right-click it, then click Stop. This disables the service, but only until the next reboot. During system restart, Win2K automatically starts each service that has a startup type of Automatic. To permanently disable a service, you need to change its startup type. To change a service's startup type, double-click the service to bring up its Properties dialog box, which Figure 5 shows. You can change the startup type from Automatic to Manual or Disabled by choosing an option from the Startup type drop-down list. When you set the startup type to Manual, you can start the service by right-clicking it. When you set the startup type to Disabled, Win2K disables the Start, Stop, and Restart options, which means that the service can't run until you change its status back to Manual or Automatic. Repeat this procedure for each service you want to disable.
Understanding Port Exposure
Each Win2K service uses one or more protocols to implement network connections. When a service is running, it listens for incoming requests on the port associated with the protocol. Because 65,535 ports exist, to maintain order for worldwide communication, international standards associate a specific port number with a specific protocol (e.g., FTP, HTTP) and thus, with the service that uses the protocol. You can see the port assignments at http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers. (For information about the two types of ports that exist, see the Web-exclusive sidebar "TCP vs. UDP Ports.")
The standards further divide these 65,535 ports into three groups: well-known ports (0 to 1023), user-registered ports (1024 to 49,151), and dynamic or private ports (49,152 to 65,535). Well-known ports facilitate common network communication between similar and disparate network operating systems. So, for example, the Telnet service uses the Telnet protocol, which listens on port 23 for incoming connections. Likewise, the FTP service responds to incoming and outgoing requests on port 21, the SMTP service you activate when you send mail listens on port 25, the POP3 service you activate when you receive mail listens on port 110, and the HTTP service listens for nonsecure connections (i.e., http:// requests) on port 80 and secure connections (i.e., https://) on port 443. NetBIOS broadcasts names on port 137 and creates connections to local shares on port 139.
When you stop a Win2K service, you must be aware of two important concerns. First, when you stop a service, you stop responses to incoming requests on the companion port. When the service doesn't respond to an incoming request, you eliminate intrusive and legitimate attempts to access your system. When you disable the FTP service on your Internet system, you can no longer store or retrieve files from your machine when you're at a remote location, and you might not be able to live with this restriction. Second, even when you stop multiple services, you don't deter access to higher-numbered ports. Most personal firewalls, however, let you filter or restrict incoming connections for standard services such as Telnet and FTP so that you can permit legitimate connections from known addresses as well as deny connections to unknown addresses. Firewalls also have built-in rules that stop known Trojan-horse attacks by prohibiting access to ports in the user-registered and dynamic port ranges.
Closing the Gaps with a Personal Firewall
In Part 2, I'll discuss how you can significantly reduce remaining vulnerabilities by installing a personal firewall. I'll explain how firewalls implement realtime protection with a set of port rules that permit or deny access, and I'll review three important features that you should evaluate before you select a personal firewall product. I'll also discuss intrusion alerts and show you logs of known Trojan-horse and port-scanner attacks. I have lengthy logs of repeated attempts to invade my network, launched from places as far away as Asia and as near as Silicon Valley. If you don't think Internet intrusion is a reality, these examples will convince you that a firewall is a mandatory component of a well-protected SOHO network.
|Related Articles in Previous Issues
You can obtain the following articles from Windows 2000 Magazine's Web site at http://www.win2000mag.com/articles.
"Audit Account Logon Events," March 2001, InstantDoc ID 19677
You can obtain the following articles from the Windows IT Security Web site at http://www.WindowsITsecurity.com.
"Dangerous Services, Part 3," January 2001, InstantDoc ID 16476
"Dangerous Services, Part 2," December 2000, InstantDoc ID 16363
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Pumpkin Protein Iced Coffee RecipePosted on October 22, 2014 at 12:01 am
So here's my logic on this one: pumpkin + coffee + protein = you can't really lose now can you? I'm the typical fall-loving girl…pumpkin everything, fall-scented candles, leggings as pants, you know, the usual. But I have to do a lot of improvising since it's hot in Florida still. Enter: the Pumpkin Protein Iced Coffee.
I'm kind of repulsed by what's in Starbucks' PSL so I decided to make my own version:
What You'll Need:
- Cup of coffee
- Scoop of vanilla protein (I used this one)
- 2 tablespoons of pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup almond milk (I used vanilla)
- 1 frozen banana
- Handful of ice
- Sprinkle of cinnamon & pumpkin pie spice
What To Do:
Blend everything together! BAM…easy. Then top with more cinnamon & pumpkin pie spice if you'd like. And obviously you should drink it out of a mason jar and an orange straw, because who doesn't like to be festive?
xo, Jess
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Alllllrighty then. This is going on my to-make list!!!
Hi Jess,
I work out 5 times a week, combination of running and weight training and I do not take protein supplement after working out. I use to drink protein, however I stopped about a year ago because I didn't know if I was drinking the correct kind (and it can be pretty expensive for such uncertainty!). Do you recommend Optimum Nutrition? I am not looking to loose weight rather just building lean muscle. Thanks!!

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November, 2002
2002-2005 FORECAST: SIA Projects Double-Digit Growth for Global Semiconductor Sales
-19.8% Growth Rate Fuels Industry Advance in 2003 - -$200 Billion Chip Industry Forecast by 2004--
SAN JOSE, Calif. – November 6, 2002– The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today released its 2002-2005 annual forecast, projecting an industry recovery with double-digit growth over the next two years. Worldwide sales of semiconductors are expected to increase by 1.8 percent in 2002, by 19.8 percent in 2003, and by 21.7 percent in 2004.
AMD Chairman W. J. ("Jerry") Sanders III presented the new forecast at the SIA's 25th Annual Forecast and Award Dinner held in San Jose, California. "The long-awaited recovery is under way," said Sanders. "We believe the next several years will see steady growth following the industry's steepest-ever decline in 2001." Sanders noted that worldwide semiconductor sales are now projected to surpass the peak revenues of 2000 in 2004.
"It is now clear that 2000 was a bubble that distorted the industry's compound annual growth rate, pushing it above 16 percent," said Sanders. "We believe that compound annual growth rates in the range of 8 to 10 percent will be the norm going forward over the longer term. This will represent a sea change for our industry. We can no longer count on the proverbial rising tide that lifts all boats. Nevertheless, a huge industry with compound annual growth averaging 8 to 10 percent will continue to offer opportunities for significant growth for companies that consistently deliver desirable products for their target customers," he added.
The SIA forecast includes detail on regional semiconductor markets and products such as:
World Markets: "Reflecting the rapid shift of contract manufacturing operations to the Asia-Pacific region – primarily China and Taiwan –semiconductor consumption in this region grew by 30 percent," noted Sanders. "In 2001, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 29 percent of worldwide semiconductor consumption. In 2002, we project that this number will rise to 37 percent – the largest one-year shift in consumption patterns in history."
Americas Market: The Americas will decline 12 percent to $31 billion in 2002, and then grow 14 percent to $36 billion in 2003, 22 percent to $43 billion in 2004, and then decline 4.6 percent in 2005 to $41 billion.
European Market: This region will decline 9.0 percent in 2002 to $27 billion, and then grow 18 percent to $32 billion in 2003, 19 percent to $39 billion in 2004, and decrease 1.0 percent to $38 billion in 2005.
Japanese Market: The Japanese market will decrease 7.5 percent to $31 billion in 2002, increase 22 percent to $37 billion in 2003, 18 percent to $44 billion in 2004, and then remain nearly flat, decreasing at 1.3 percent in 2005 to $43 billion.
Asia Pacific Market: Of all the semiconductor regions, this region shall experience the strongest growth in 2002 with sales increasing 30 percent to $52 billion, and should continue growing in 2003 and 2004 24 percent to $64 billion and 25 percent to $80 billion, respectively. Like the other markets in 2005, Asia Pacific will experience a slowdown, reporting growth of 3.0 percent to $83 billion.
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Total Semiconductors: The total semiconductor market is expected to experience a slight increase in sales in 2002 of 1.8 percent to $141 billion. In 2003, the SIA forecasts growth of 19.8 percent to $169 billion, 22 percent to $206 billion in 2004, and then remain flat at $206 billion in 2005.
Discrete Components: Discrete components include power transistors and radio frequency (RF) solutions that are found in wireless consumer products. This segment is forecast to remain essentially flat in 2002 with 2.2 percent growth to $12 billion. Discretes are then forecast to grow 11 percent to $14 billion in 2003, 16 percent to $16 billion in 2004, and 1.3 percent to $16 billion in 2005.
Optoelectronics: The optoelectronics market includes laser devices, image sensors, and products that are frequently used in communication applications. In 2002, this market is expected to decline 7.0 percent to $7 billion in sales, but then grow 18 percent to $8.1 billion in 2003, 17 percent to $9.5 billion in 2004, and 10 percent to $10 billion in 2005.
Analog: Consumer and automotive application-specific analog products play an important role in this sector. The largest end-use driver of analog includes the upgraded telecommunications networks for Internet service and digital telecom technologies. Analog is expected to grow 3.0 percent to $24 billion in 2002, 19 percent to $28 billion in 2003, 22 percent to $35 billion in 2004, and 5.2 percent to $36 billion by 2005.
MOS Logic: The global logic market includes standard logic, standard cell, field programmable logic devices (FPLD), and a broad variety of application-specific products. In 2002, MOS Logic is expected to decline 3.1 percent to $32 billion, however, increase 16 percent in 2003 to $37 billion, 19 percent to $44 billion in 2004 and 7.8 percent to $47 billion in 2005.
MOS Micro Devices: This broad product category includes microprocessors, microcontrollers and digital signal processors. In 2002, this product sector is forecast to grow 2.8 percent to $38 billion, 18 percent to $45 billion in 2003, 16 percent to $52 billion in 2004, and 5.9 percent to $55 billion in 2005.
Microprocessors: Microprocessors will remain nearly flat in 2002 with 1.9 percent growth to $24 billion and then forecast to grow 12 percent to $27 billion in 2003, 14 percent to $30 billion in 2004, and 4.6 percent to $32 billion in 2005.
Microcontrollers: The global microcontroller market, driven by consumer and automotive applications, will experience a slight decline in 2002 before it sees growth in 2003. It is forecast that this sector will decrease 0.2 percent to $9.6 billion in 2002, and then grow 25 percent to $12 billion in 2003, 12 percent to $13 billion in 2004, and 5.0 percent to $14 billion by 2005.
Digital Signal Processors: DSPs can found in wired and wireless communications applications. This market is forecast to increase in sales 15 percent to $4.9 billion in 2002, 33 percent in 2003 to $6.5 billion, 29 percent to $8.4 billion in 2004, and 12 percent to $9.4 billion in 2005.
Application Specific: Application Specific Standard Products (ASSP) include consumer, computer and peripheral, communications, automotive, and industrial and other markets. After declining over 27 percent in 2001, the ASSP market is poised for growth. In 2002, ASSP should grow 5.7 percent to 15 billion, and then increase 18 percent to $17 billion in 2003 and 21 percent to $21 billion in 2004. 2005 is expected to have slow growth of 5.4 percent to $22 billion in sales.
MOS Memory: The MOS Memory market, which includes DRAMs, Flash, SRAMs, and EPROMs, continues in its historical volatile patterns. Sales in this product sector will be led by the DRAM market, followed by Flash. In 2002, the MOS Memory market is forecast to grow 8.2 percent to $27 billion, 33 percent to $36 billion in 2003, and 35 percent to $48 billion in 2004. By 2005, this market is expected to incur a cyclical downturn with a decrease of 21 percent, sales down to $38 billion.
DRAM: No one segment more clearly demonstrates the cyclical nature of the global semiconductor market than DRAMs, but DRAMs, which were once used almost entirely in computers, are now being found in a broad number of consumer and communication applications. The DRAM market is expected to grow 35 percent to $15 billion in 2002, 35 percent to $20 billion in 2003, and 43 percent to $29 billion in 2004. In 2005, DRAMs are forecast to decrease 29 percent to $21 billion in sales.
Flash: Flash, like other memory products incurs high volatility. Flash products can be found in communications and digital photography applications. In 2002, this market is expected to remain flat at 0.7 percent to $7.7 billion, grow 39 percent to $11 billion in 2003, and 28 percent to $14 billion in 2004. In 2005, however, Flash is expected to decline 9.1 percent to $12 billion in sales.
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Intermittent no-start, P1391
Hoping someone could share some thoughts on this...
I have a 2000 XJ with around 140k on it. Around 125k I put in a new 4.6 stroker. Until now everything has ran great with no problems.
About a week ago out of nowhere, I start it up and drive off and feel some hesitation and the check engine light is on. I go to the store and when I come out it will not start, it just cranks. I try several times and on the 5th or so I starts up and runs like nothing was ever wrong with it.
So I go to the part store and have them scan my engine code. P1391 - Camshaft sensor or Crankshaft sensor signal intermittent. So I order both sensors.
In the mean time, when I go to start it its about 50/50 wether it starts or just cranks. Turning the key all the way off and retrying seems to usually solve it. Occasionally it will start but runs very poor and usually dies, like as if only half the cylinders are firing.
So, I get the new sensors in and change both of them out and unhook the battery to reset it. It starts right up but I get a check engine light. I turn it on and off trying to repeat the no start but so far it has started fine everytime.
I go back to the parts store and they say its the same code so I have them erase it. All was fine for a day. Then last night I start it up and the light comes on, but still no troubles with it running. It still runs great like it did 2 weeks ago.
Today I start it up, engine light still on, and I am going down the road and the engine loses power and it dies goign about 45. I throw it in neutral and start it and it fires back up and runs like nothing was ever wrong. Same code though
Im not sure what to think really? The sensors are fine, but its getting intermittent codes I guess..but it goes away when I turn it off and back on, eventually at least.
Any thoughts?
Re: Intermittent no-start, P1391
did u check for broken wires??mayb when the motor moves a certain way while driving, a wire will touch causing ur code/loss of power...i would check continuity from the crank sensor connector to the pcm, as u wiggle the harness around...hopefully that helps
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well i lightly examined it, but i didnt go as far as tearing open the loom. i have a dmm, but how do i go about checking it, the two ends are kinda far away from each other to reach both. i initially thought that may be it, but just the fact turning the key on and off fixes it for a while throws me off
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To be considered for a GSD in our Rehome Program, you must:
Once approved, we evaluate the rescue dog that you are interested in to see if she or he matches your preferences and lifestyle. If it's a match and you want to meet him/her, then we schedule a visit with the foster home for you to meet the dog.
If the rescue dog is not suited for your family, we will then look at the GSDs in our Rehome program and those being evaluated to see if any of them are a match.
We work on a best match basis, not on a first come first serve basis. Our goal is to find the best home for our rescue dogs and the best dog for our adoption applicants. If we find two or three homes that are equally suited for the same rescue, we would proceed with the applicant who submitted their application on the earliest date.
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It is a great idea for adoption applicants to apply and to be pre-approved adopters. GSR&RC is constantly evaluating GSDs for our Rehome program and we usually have several GSDs in process.
If we have a rescue dog that is a match for your family, and you are already approved, we will immediately contact you with the GSDs profile to see if you are interested. One of our res cue dogs could be your next best friend!
Even if you are not ready to adopt, we will complete the process and keep your approval on file until you are ready. Once you are ready, we will review any changes to your lifestyle since you were approved and start the process to get you a
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We do not have a "fence requirement" for our dogs, however we may determine that a particular dog requires or would do best with a fenced yard. This will be stated in the dogs profile and homes without fencing will not be considered unless the home can demonstrate strong GSD experience. If you do have a fence and plan on having a rescue dog unleashed in it, it needs to be in good condition without holes, secure gates and high enough that a dog cannot easily jump over it.
Electronic fencing, wireless fencing or invisible fencing are NOT permitted for myriad reasons. If this is your primary method of containment you will be considered an "unfenced" home and you will be required to keep your rescue dog on a leash.
Unless your rescue dog can demonstrate that it will choose you over a squirrel, jogger or another loose dog 100% of the time, you will be required to have your dog leashed at all times when not in a secure area.
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GSR&RC is staffed entirely by volunteers. All of us have families, and animals of our own and most of us have full time jobs. Many of us work more hours doing rescue work than we do at our full-time jobs.
While we make every effort to process applications and return emails and phone calls immediately, this may not always happen. We ask for your patience. We will do our best to review your Adoption application and contact you as soon as possible.
Application processing time averages 2-3 weeks depending on the volume of applications received.
Arranging schedules for you to meet our dogs takes time too. You may have to travel to meet one of our dogs as our foster homes are located in all of the New England States.
Homeless GSDs with a time limit, dog evaluations, emergency medical calls and calls about the safety of our animals take priority.
Consider volunteering with us; this will help us shorten our response time to both GSDs in need and adoption applicants. We'd love to work with you!
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Effective January 1, 2016 our adoption fees are:
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has backed Britain leaving the European Union (EU), accusing David Cameron's government of 'laundering' power to the EU.
The Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist, 44, slammed the EU for its undemocratic nature in an interview with ITV. He said the UK government "launders things to the EU and then claims that it can't do anything about it." Adding:
"The UK is bad for the EU, but also the EU is bad for the UK because it permits a lack of democratic accountability in this country by permitting successive governments in this country to simply say 'oh, we are forced into doing things because of EU legislation' when it is precisely these governments that have been behind the EU legislation in the first place."
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Since November 2010, Mr. Assange has been subject to extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning concerning an allegation of rape.
However, he denies the charge and strongly suspects he will be extradited to the U.S., where he could face life imprisonment for leaking state secrets.
After exhausting his legal options in the UK, he has been living inside Ecuador's London Embassy for around four years, unable to leave without being arrested for breaching his bail conditions.
Speaking from experience, he also said: "For example, the European Arrest Warrant – we think here in the United Kingdom that you have a right to a fair trial… but in my case, we don't have any of that.
"Many people in the UK have been affected by that. That's a fundamental basis of sovereignty; random officials in the rest of the European Union can suddenly force your police to arrest people."
During the interview, Mr. Assange also announced some upcoming leaks that involve U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, and he has predicted a "very big year" for WikiLeaks.


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Two teens battle emotional issues and physical abuse as their lifelong friendship is tested when one of the boys begins seeing a therapist.
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Daniel Long is currently the head of production/executive producer at the artist management and production company Casey in New York City. Daniel has been Keeping busy shooting music videos and commercial content for a variety of clients. He is also developing the feature version of Pigeon Kicker. Daniel produced The Lie, which debuted at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in late 2011, he also produced the short films, The Last Visit, The Death of Salvador Dali, Birth of Industry, and Hound Dog which have all enjoyed successful festival runs.
Director Daniel Long will be available for a Q&A after both screenings, and writer Milton Liu will also be available for a Q&A after the June 3rd screening.
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Not that long ago, Michael Roca walked into the breakfast restaurant of a hotel he was staying at for his work as senior vice president of compliance at Jefferies & Co.
Sitting near him was a couple with four phones laid out on their table. Two each, one for business communications, one for personal communications.
Those days are ending, as executives, managers and employees all begin relying increasingly on smartphones that blend Web surfing, entertainment, business and communications of all types, as well as tablets and lightweight computing devices with larger screens for consuming books, reports and interactive media. Devices that they purchase for their own reasons. But quickly want to use for both personal and business purposes.
This, of course, is the "bring your own device" phenomenon, which now pointedly confronts information system managers everywhere with the question, as Roca puts it:
"Why not let people bring their devices to work,'' he said, at the annual conference of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority this week.
With company networks, all equipment, all connections, all applications, all services are purchased and maintained by internal staff or contracted services. "Do we need that whole infrastructure? Do we need to go out and buy devices for our employees when they're buying their own devices anyway? When they're buying their own data plans anyway?'' he said.
One solution is to reimburse employees for an appropriate amount of those data plans and some portion of the equipment purchase. Such moves help offload expense from the company and helps improve productivity as well as lower cost for the individuals as well. Plus, they get more productive.
There are some rubs.
Access to the corporate network. How do you filter access for any unsupported devices and make sure there is no damage to your network? One solution, Roca noted, is to have a "guest" network that is separate from your main network. At least on a guest network, an employee with a personal device can get access to the Web directly and corporate mail indirectly through a chosen Web mail service.
Safety. Any personal devices that do get cleared to be used on the coporate network need to have installed appropriate virus protection and other security mechanisms.
Data protection. Companies need to make sure that the data stored on the device is protected from any hacking or outsider access. One company, Good Technology, provides a secure container for company data on personal devices, Roca noted. This makes a smartphone or a tablet act "almost like an installed Blackberry" device, he said.
Sandbox. In any event, companies should look at how to use third-party services or their own coding to create "sandboxes" in those devices where company data and company-issued applications reside and are walled off from interaction with personal data, applications or online services.
Separate email programs. To replicate the two-phone approach in a simpler manner to keep personal and business communications separate, install a separate corporate email program just for business use. Make it clear that the user is welcome to use their own preferred email program for personal use. But all business communication and only business communications get executed on the corporate mail program.
Device control. Who ultimately controls the device? If your company forbids photo-taking inside its buildings for security reasons, you'll want to turn off camera phones. Make it a clear part of policy that if a person wants to bring their own device, fine. But it'll be under the condition that you will be installing an app that allows you to do such things as turn off the camera or block "like" and recommending functions on social media sites, to adhere to FINRA guidelines.
The message:
"Once you become part of our network, we're going to apply our network policies,'' Roca said. "These are our conditions. This is how it's going to work.''
After all, smartphones and tablets are just new forms of personal computing. And there's a reason a personal computer is called a personal computer, said Paul Moschetti, chief architect for investment bank at JP Morgan Chase.
"Its DNA is designed to be configurable by you,'' he said. "And that's the antithesis of what we want in corporate control."
This story originally appeared at Securities Technology Monitor.
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld is the editor-in-chief of Securities Technology Monitor.
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An interview with Julia Colpitts, the Executive Director of the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. Julia affirms that Maine has reached a tipping point, where the recent murders of wives by their husbands has made it clear to everyone that change needs to happen. We discussed the current legislation that is pending in Maine to prevent offenders from being let out on bail without a criminal background check, that includes strangulation as a prosecutable offense, and that mandates a risk assessment to identify those abusers most at risk for lethal violence. Julia reports the ways that the mental health community has not always served victims well, by failing to do risk assessments, or by referring to couples therapy which can put the woman more at risk for violence. Julia describes the importance of engaging men to speak out clearly and powerfully about the necessity of treating women with love and respect.
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It would be great if we can use this forum to archive our mailing list messages and let users post their messages there so that they are forwarded to the forum automatically. WDYT? Trustin ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Will Lin <email@example.com> Date: 2005. 10. 6 오전 8:22 Subject: About Nabble To: email@example.com This message is about a new forum project called Nabble. I write to this list because I found that Nabble seems to have been banned from all the Apache WS mailing lists. One of Nabble's services is to archive public mailing lists to allow better search and browsing. This searchable archive idea is not new, but Nabble tries to improve upon the existing solutions. Take Apache as an example. There are many sub divisions in Apache, each division is a community in itself, and each division consists of several sub projects, and each project has several mailing lists. The existing archiver (mbox, MARC, Gmane, mail-archive) only provides a flat list of archives. You can view or search each list, but you cannot search, for example, the 6 lists in Axis project, or the 40 lists in Apache WS group, or the 300 lists in entire Apache community. You basically need to visit each list individually. Nabble offers a hierarchical archive organized according to the Apache structure. Visit http://www.nabble.com/Apache-f90.html - you can browse or search the entire community. Or, you can drill into each division, for example, Apache Web Services, Jakarta, Cocoon ... to browse and search each community, each project, each list. Nabble is new and unknown. But as people discover it, they seem to like it. See this recent thread from an Apache committer: http://www.nabble.com/-OT-Do-you-know-nabble.com--t252499.html#a706596 Nabble uses Apache Lucene for search. You can play with it and see that we have a better search than the other searchable archives, thanks to Apache Lucene. To archive a list, Nabble will subscribe to a list using the email address "email@example.com". This is a common practice for all the mailing list archives. Nabble subscribes to all Apache lists. What we found out recently, is that we got dropped from all the lists in the Apache WS group. This is a bit disheartening, because WS lists seem to allow third-party archiving and posting. Take email@example.com for example, it is archived on Gmane http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.axis.user (also allows posting from Gmane site to Axis list), Mail-archive.com <http://Mail-archive.com> (http://firstname.lastname@example.com/). Also, there is a discussion about allowing third-party mirror here: http://www.nabble.com/GMANE-t271666.html#a776287 Could you please let us know why is Nabble not allowed to subscribe to WS lists? And what the WS community would like Nabble to do? We would love to hear the community's wishes and we will respect your demand. Needless to say, if the community wants the Nabble mirror to be deleted, we will do it right away. Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing from you. -- what we call human nature is actually human habit -- http://gleamynode.net/
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The ideal microbicide would be inexpensive, desirable, long-acting, easy to use and store, protective against both HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and available in contraceptive and non-contraceptive forms.
Since women and girls are at particularly high risk for HIV/AIDS in many parts of the world, it is especially important to have an effective, desirable vaginal microbicide as an HIV prevention tool that women control. AIDS is the leading cause of death for reproductive-age women in low- and middle-income countries.
NIAID supports all phases of microbicide research, from basic research to animal studies to clinical trials, many of which are conducted by the NIAID-funded Microbicide Trials Network (MTN). Also funding the MTN are the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Mental Health, both part of NIH.
The most promising NIAID-funded microbicide clinical trial to-date is the ASPIRE trial, also known as MTN-020. This large, multinational study was designed to test the effectiveness and extended safety of a drug-infused vaginal ring for preventing HIV infection in women. The study aimed to determine whether the experimental antiretroviral drug dapivirine could safely and effectively prevent HIV infection when continuously released in the vagina from a silicone ring replaced once every 4 weeks. In February 2016, the ASPIRE investigators reported that the dapivirine ring safely reduced the risk of HIV infection by 27 percent in the study population overall and by 61 percent in women ages 25 and older, but provided no statistically significant protection in women younger than 25 years.
Subsequently, investigators performed exploratory, post-hoc analyses of data from the ASPIRE study to better understand the degree of protection the dapivirine ring could provide if used consistently. They found that adherence to the ring was associated with a reduction in risk of HIV infection of at least 56 percent, and high adherence was associated with a risk reduction of potentially 75 percent or more.
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Imagine being a young boy in the early nineties, home alone and you've already watched Wrath of Khan five times, and stared at that poster of Leia in the metal bikini for far longer than would be considered healthy. What's one to do without the internet? I mean Pokémon hasn't even been invented yet for Christ's sake. Then suddenly you invite a friend round he brings along a copy of Dark World, an Action-Adventure board game which captures the spirit of Dungeons and Dragons whilst mentally distancing yourself from that silver bullet.
Dark World was published in 1992 by Waddingtons, before they were bought out by Hasbro for creating board games that didn't ruin entire families (i.e. Monopoly). 1992 was an interesting year (according to Wikipedia, I was still running into walls and soiling my pants): the Japanese government apologised for the crime of using Comfort Women and President Bush vomited into Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's lap. The modern European Union was formed; Lee Jang Rim's Dami Movement inevitably fails to predict the apocalypse, and the existence of exoplanets is confirmed. But bringing up the grim side of the year (aside from the many natural disasters): Dr. Almada discovers the Archives of Terror – detailing the brutal actions of the police throughout Latin America. 1992 is officially known as the International Space Year and saw the first ever worldwide commercial video game release – Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
|Sonic II multi-player: the number one cause of Resentful Little Brother Syndrome.
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After a brief bit of research on the internet, I've concluded that Dark World is considered to be every bit as derivative of better work as the test results in a clone laboratory mass-producing cheating students. I suppose this is expected considering the game's setting is an unholy amalgamation of the worlds of Howard and Tolkien. The market for this sort of game was as over-saturated as Narcissus' Instagram account.
Particularly loathed is the game's uncanny ability to grant one player more power than the rest combined. Dark World apparently being designed by an embittered mole-man who can't speak the word 'friendship' without it tasting like bitter ashes in his mouth.
Particularly loathed is the game's uncanny ability to grant one player more power than the rest combined. Dark World apparently being designed by an embittered mole-man who can't speak the word 'friendship' without it tasting like bitter ashes in his mouth.
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Does It Hold Up?
Like almost everything from the nineties (I'm looking at you bucket hats and Gameboy Colour worm lights), time has not been kind to Dark World. It's the type of board game that comes with the recommended production levels of adventure, but no more. Like a wealthy family, Dark World does the bare minimum while holding you in contempt when you attempt to finish the rest yourself and subsequently fail to meet its lofty expectations. Immediately, as you open the box, you're greeted by dozens of shoddy plastic pieces, which the manual decrees must be painted to enhance your experience somehow. It's a cheap trick, like Pope Julius II commissioning Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling and then being all "bitch, get off your lazy arse" when the painter enquired about scaffolding.
You practically need a degree in medieval architectural engineering to put the whole thing together. There's this flimsy multi-layered castle with individual sections that you need to trickily lock into place like an inverted L-shape at a Tetris orgy. The problem is that the production is weak, and the holes are either incorrectly aligned or the pegs are. So the whole procedure devolves into a process of deft manipulation, as you attempt to the angle the pegs from one side into the holes without the full thing popping out. And WHO think solving the Ebola crisis is a thankless task. Even when you do eventually complete the entire structure, it's guaranteed that it'll be too late for your waning interest.
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Gameplay revolves around infiltrating Korak the Cobran Nemesis' doom fortress. You know, the one you just spent half an hour putting together. Right from the off you're up against the villain you helped to cement into a position of power; you're essentially the CIA and Korak's the Mujahideen. In order to complete this task, you are required to chose from one of the usual bunch. There's a Barbarian, a Knight, a Ranger, or a Dwarf - because being short, and stout, is now a career choice thanks to Little Tea Pot. As it's the early nineties these guys all resemble the cast of a cheapo direct-to-video fantasy flick; rippling muscles, dodgy facial hair, and loin cloths so skimpy there's an online community dedicated to lambasting their skinny privilege. I always went for the Knight purely because he rocked a John Walter's pencil 'tash.
Not that it ultimately matters who you choose to play as. Dark World does the whole peculiar (not to mention lazy) thing of every character having the same number of hit points, damage dice rolls, etc. Which is particular erroneous considering one of the characters is pure testosterone left behind the radiator to curdle, whilst the others are as flimsy as the knob of a stick man trapped in a sexless marriage. In fact, homogeneity is at the very core of Dark World's ethos and proves to be ruinous to the game's attempt at creating an epic world. Imagine remaking Sophie's Choice and replacing the children with potatoes. You would hardly expect the choice aspect to carry the same weight.
The monsters progressively increase in vitality and number, but they operate within the exact same damage bracket - regardless of whether they fight with crude little daggers, prodigious claws, or the Wave Motion Gun from Star Blazers. Fight a goblin at the start of the game, and that's pretty much how it'll feel fighting a Chimera, mummy or ogre. Once you realise this - that the game is essentially going to boil down to a carefully executed line dance - Dark World stops being fun. If you and your cohorts can quickly clear a room with deft use of your items, abilities, and jolly co-operation, then you'll be equipped to handle most of what the game has to offer. You can search the dungeon for the bonus golden weapons, but there's little incentive - beyond being able to utilize an extra die. Yes, find a magic sword and you'll be able to roll three dice like you're in an elevator trying to do a bluff skill check to cover up a rank fart.
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Eventually, the gameplay devolves into one big monotonous drag worthy of a soul-crushing shift at Greencore. The funny thing is that despite this, Dark World attempts to remedy the problem of the Game Master having nothing to do. During their turn the GM gets to decide turn order, as well as enemy placement and distribution. They are even given a secret weapon to unleash: namely the Haunter. Naturally he's as grossly overpowered as the wave machine in Moses' pool. Randomly, the Haunter sweeps the board as broadly as the rubbish that spews from the mouth of Katie Hopkins. And if you happen to be in his path, well then it's back to the start for you. Do not pass go. I'm unsure of how best to describe micro-managing the threat of the Haunter and carrying out your monster-slaying duties. But I'm confident trying to keep two salt-water crocodiles from mating, whilst sitting a paper on interdisciplinary studies, would be far easier.
Obviously being the one to take charge of proceedings and screw over your friends is the most entertaining aspect of Dark World. After all, Medici probably imprisoned Machiavelli for being a motherfucker at games night. For everyone else, the game is likely to become a massive drag before the end. In part, this is because akin to a serpiginous lesion it's completely uneven. The aforementioned problems with homoeostasis in regards to damage output, abilities and powers, coupled with the overall lack of diversity results in the fun quickly expiring. Enter room, kill enemies, steal loot, and rinse and repeat - like an Edge of Tomorrow brand of shampoo.
Still, Dark World's nostalgic swords and sorcery setting whisked me off to my halcyon childhood days. There's something infinitely appealing about this style of fantasy. Big Damn Heroes bumbling their way through dungeons that increasingly resemble Gary Gygax's sex-basement. Invariably battling a Rolodex of mythological creatures, until the whole affair starts looking like the back of a secondary school maths exercise book. This was the ethos of the earlier editions of DnD: a bit silly, and full of obscure references. Nothing can compare to discovering a masterful re-imagining of a Dobrynya Nikitich byliny subtly buried in a campaign.
The Dark World of Dark World is one where whimsical magic meets technology. It can be weird when you pick up a hand grenade from a felled foe. What is this: Monty Python and the Holy Grail? I can't help but think that archvillains like Korak would get far less work if some entrepreneurial young spellcaster fused magic and steel together to create himself an ass-kicking assault rifle. The other consumables included winged boots and various elixirs, and these can be used exactly once. This stringent limit makes sense for the explosives and potions, but less so for the boots - I guess Meathead the Barbarian is sensitive about his smelly feet.
All in all, this is by no means a terrible game. For its time, the set provided was surprisingly intricate. Sure, you had to paint everything yourself - but you were given substantial pivoting doors, and twistable character stands with health trackers. What did HeroQuest give you? Pen and paper? Pft. László Bíró eat your heart out. Unfortunately, these improvements do not make up for Dark World's ultimate shortcoming: that it's rather tedious and lacks replayability. Nor is it a game that you'd want to play repeatedly. Unlike most board games, or even, game books (such as the awesome Lone Wolf series) there are no variables to alter. Which means that Dark World does not allow for different styles of playing, and it also means that the story and setting is always the same. You may like inoffensive predictability, but so did the inhabitants in The Machine Stops, and we all know how that ended. With death, obviously.
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On Monday, Scheunemann, a foreign policy adviser to to McCain, told the national press that Obama wants America to "lose" the war in Iraq. Although its difficult to know what words like "win" and "lose" actually mean at this point in Iraq, his words were dutifully repeated in print on television and online. Scheunemann said that Obama failed in his duty as a Senator to support our troops by voting to "defund our forces in Afghanistan and Iraq" simply to "placate the left wing of the Democratic Party" and "win an election."
Yes, his comments are strange, since opposition to the increasingly unpopular conflict in Iraq can't be easily assigned to an extremist viewpoint. Besides if Obama simply wanted to "placate the left" in order to seize the election, he would have voted against a questionable FISA bill that guts the Fourth Amendment and grants immunity from civil action to telecommunication companies that have allowed the President to engage in warrantless domestic wiretapping. But as strange as Scheunemann's rhetoric may be, it shouldn't be terribly surprising.
For years, Scheunemann has worked alongside Ahmad Chalabi, the international confidence man who provided the Bush Administration with most of the bogus information used to build a case for invading Iraq. Chalabi, you may recall, repaid the administration for its patronage by giving top secret US intelligence to Iran.
If that's not enough to raise an eyebrow, how about this? On 9/11, Scheunemann was working as a consultant on Iraq for former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who'd somehow been led to believe that the invasion would be a "cakewalk" and that American troops would be greeted like heroes.
He's also the man who introduced Chalabi and his ilk to McCain.
Scheunemann's not the only questionable McCain adviser to grab headlines recently. Charlie Black, the campaign surrogate who recently caught flac for suggesting that the GOP might benefit from another terrorist attack against America, is also tied to both Chalabi and to the CEO of Blackwater International, the controversial private military contractor employed by the U.S. in Iraq.
Because McCain was a POW in Vietnam, the media tend to let him off easy on questions pertaining to foreign policy and the military. But these surrogates who advise McCain and speak for McCain are not former POWs. They aren't mysteries either. They have a history, and that history connects them with disastrous ideas, war profiteers, and at least one charlatan who took U.S. taxpayer money then sold our secrets to a presumed enemy.
Maybe it's disrespectful to McCain's military service to ask about the credibility of his military advisors. But it's even more disrespectful to every American soldier who died in Iraq not to ask, isn't it?
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